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The question of whether Socialism can be an effective economic
system was famously raised when Margaret Thatcher said of the British
Labor Party, "I think they've made the biggest financial
mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long
time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess.
They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic
of them. They then start to nationalise everything."

There are dire reports of people waiting in supermarket lines all
day, only to discover that expected food deliveries never arrived and
the shelves are empty.

There are horrific tales of desperate people slaughtering
zoo animals to provide their only meal of the day. Even household pets
are targeted as a much-needed source for food.

President Maduro is doubling down on the proven failed policies and
philosophies of "Bolivarian Socialism," while diverting attention away
from the crisis -- pointing fingers at so-called "enemies" of Venezuela
such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and others.

A dozen eggs was last reported to cost $150, and the
International Monetary Fund "predicts that inflation in Venezuela will
hit 720% this year.

For many Venezuelans, by every economic, social and political measure, their nation is unravelling at breakneck speed.
Severe shortages of food, clean water, electricity, medicines and
hospital supplies punctuate a dire scenario of crime-ridden streets in
the impoverished neighborhoods of this nearly failed OPEC state, which at one time claimed to be the most prosperous nation in Latin America.
Today, a once comfortable middle-class Venezuelan father is
scrambling desperately to find his family's next meal -- sometimes
hunting through garbage for salvageable food. The unfortunate 75% majority of Venezuelans already suffering extreme poverty are reportedly verging on starvation.Darkness is falling on Hugo Chavez's once-famous
"Bolivarian revolution" that some policy experts, only a short time ago,
thought would never end.
In a 2007 study on the Chavez years for the Washington, DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval wrote:

"[a]t
present it does not appear that the current economic expansion is about
to end any time in the near future. The gains in poverty reduction,
employment, education and health care that have occurred in the last few
years are likely to continue along with the expansion."

While it was not so long ago that many people heralded Venezuela as Latin America's successful utopian Socialist experiment, something has gone dreadfully wrong as the revolution's Marxist founder, Hugo Chavez, turned his Chavismo dream into an economic nightmare of unimaginable proportions.
The question of whether Socialism can be an effective economic system was famously raised when Margaret Thatcher said of the British Labor Party:

"I
think they've made the biggest financial mess that any government's
ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist
governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out
of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then
start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and
more nationalisation, and they're now trying to control everything by
other means."

In short: "The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
When President Nicolas Maduro inherited the Venezuelan Socialist
"dream", in April of 2013, just one month after Chavez died, he was
facing a mere 53% inflation rate. Today the Venezuelan bolivar is virtually worthless, and inflation is creeping to 500% with expectations of much more. A recent Washington Post report stated:

"
...markets expect Venezuela to default on its debt in the very near
future. The country is basically bankrupt. It is not easy for a nation
to go bankrupt with the largest oil reserves in the world, but Venezuela
has managed it. How? Well, a combination of bad luck and worse
policies. The first step was when Hugo Chávez's socialist government
started spending more money on the poor, with everything from two-cent
gasoline to free housing. That may all seem like it's a good idea in
general — but only as long as there's money to spend. And by 2005 or so,
Venezuela didn't have any."

Chavez had the good fortune to die just before the grim reaper showed up on Venezuela's doorstep. According to policy specialist Jose Cardenas:

"What
began as a war against the 'squalid' oligarchy in order to build what
he called '21st-century socialism' -- cheered on as he was by many
leftists from abroad -- has collapsed into an unprecedented heap of
misery and conflict."

Maduro is doubling down on the failedChavismo economic and social policies that have contributed to an inflationary
crisis not seen since the days of the 1920's Weimar Republic in
Germany, when the cost of a loaf of bread was a wheelbarrow full of
cash.
Demonstrations and public cries for food are the unpleasant evidence
of a once-prosperous society being torn apart by the very largess that
marked its utopian ideals less than a decade ago.
There are dire reports of people waiting in supermarket lines all
day, only to discover that expected food deliveries never arrived and
the shelves are empty.
In desperation, some middle class families have organized online barter clubs
as helpless citizens seek to trade anything for diapers and baby food,
powdered milk, medicines, toilet paper and other essentials missing from
store shelves or available only on the black market for double and
triple already impossibly inflated prices..
There are horrific tales of desperate people slaughtering zoo animals to provide their only meal of the day. Even household pets are targeted as a much-needed source for food. This is a desperate time for a desperate people.
As things continue to worsen, President Maduro, unfortunately, is
doubling down on the proven failed policies and philosophies of "Bolivarian Socialism," while diverting attention away from the crisis -- pointing fingers at so-called "enemies" of Venezuela such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and others.
Efforts to convince Maduro to enlist help from outside have failed, according to a report in the Catholic magazine, Crux:

Maduro
has refused to accept help from international charitable organizations,
including the Vatican-sponsored Caritas Internationalis, which through
different affiliates has tried to send medicine and food.

"Denying that there's a crisis and refusing to let the world send
medicine and food is not possible," said Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino,
archbishop of Caracas.

The prelate believes that Maduro is refusing to accept help in an
attempt to hide the "very grave situation of total shortage," which far
from improving, he said, continues to deteriorate.

"The
Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, the organization of the nation's
Catholic bishops, issued a scathing statement condemning president
Maduro for giving the military full control of the nation's food supply,
accusing him of being at the helm of a devastating "moral crisis" and
crippling every aspect of life in Venezuela."

In what some economists have been calling a "death spiral",
the government's failed economic policies are at the same time causing
and trying to stem a runaway inflation with price-fixing policies which,
in turn, are triggering shortages. Maduro is strongly urging businesses
and farmers to sell their goods at severe losses, forcing shut-downs
when the cost of doing business becomes prohibitive.
According to a recent Bloomberg report, the black market is thriving
because goods are unavailable at prices fixed by the government. There
are reports of ordinary people quitting inadequate-paying jobs to set up
black market operations, hoping to be able to make enough to sustain
life.
A dozen eggs was last reported to cost $150, and the International Monetary Fund
"predicts that inflation in Venezuela will hit 720% this year. That
might be an optimistic assessment, according to some local economic
analysts, who expect the rate to reach as high as 1,200%."
According to a Bloomberg report from April:

"In
a tale that highlights the chaos of unbridled inflation, Venezuela is
scrambling to print new bills fast enough to keep up with the torrid
pace of price increases. Most of the cash, like nearly everything else
in the oil-exporting country, is imported. And with hard currency
reserves sinking to critically low levels, the central bank is doling
out payments so slowly to foreign providers that they are foregoing
further business.

"Venezuela, in other words, is now so broke that it may not have enough money to pay for its money."

In the midst of this galloping cataclysm, there is no shortage of
pundits who simplistically assert that the catastrophe is caused solely
by the international collapse of oil prices. However, according to Justin Fox at Bloomberg:

"The
divergence between Venezuela's revenue and spending started long before
(the 2014) oil-price collapse. When oil prices hit their all-time high
in July 2008, government revenue -- 40 percent of which
comes directly from oil -- was already falling. The main problem was
Venezuelan oil production, which dropped from 3.3 million barrels a day
in 2006 to 2.7 million in 2011. It was still at 2.7 million in 2014,
according to the latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy."

"Venezuela isn't running out of oil. Its proven reserves have skyrocketed since 2000 as geologists have learned more about
the heavy crude of the Orinoco Belt. But getting at that oil will take a
lot of resources and expertise, both things that Venezuela's
state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA, best known in
the U.S. for its Citgo subsidiary), has been lacking in since Chavez
initiated a sort of hostile takeover starting in the early 2000s. First
he kicked out 18,000 workers and executives, 40 percent of the company's
workforce, after a strike.
Then he started demanding control of PDVSA's joint ventures with
foreign oil companies. One could interpret this in the most
Chavez-friendly way possible -- he was aiming for a more just allocation
of his nation's resources -- and still conclude that he made it harder
for PDVSA to deliver the necessary tax revenue."

Cronyism and corruption prevailed under Chavez when oil was
selling at almost $200 a barrel -- at a time when Venezuela could have
put some money away for the inevitable rainy day. But President Hugo
Chavez and successor president Maduro, were busy buying votes and
consolidating power with free giveaways, according to Michael Klare in The Nation.
Behind the doom and gloom Venezuela's collapse is the continuing
specter of street crime and murder, according to Time.com in a May 2016 report:

"The
country's runaway murder rate is just one of the factors driving
opposition to President Nicolas Maduro in a country where shortages of
food and basic goods are chronic, inflation is running rampant and the
government is jailing political prisoners. But it serves as a bloody
illustration of just how close to outright societal collapse Venezuela
has come since the end of the 20th century, as gangs, guerrillas and
militia defend their turfs and traditional authority structures fall by
the wayside."

Venezuela's crime rate is one of the highest in the world. Called the world's most homicidal nation,
Venezuela has more than street crime, thuggery and murder. Drug
cartels, black marketeers, narcoterrorists, white collar criminals and
money launderers are unfortunate hallmarks of the Chavez/Maduro legacy.The ruin of this once prosperous, oil-rich nation
might be a harbinger for other nations, such as the United States, which
may be tempted into believing that Socialist giveaway policies actually
can provide the promise of a free lunch for longer than the next
election cycle. Or might that be all many politicians need or want?

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."